I am reaching a point in the development of my project where I would like to start improving the look and feel of the interface... this is because I am nearing the testing phase.

I would like to know if there is a way to make my applications look pretty as opposed to the standard GTK look?

I have read a little about themes as well, is it possible to maybe have a pretty theme for the widgets in my application, without changing the user's theme in gnome?

I realise this might be a dumb question, but whilst I am an experienced C++ programmer, I have very little experience with developing user interfaces, the products we produce at work don't usually incorporate an interface.

You may be a little restricted to the standard GTK+ ubuntu theme look,but if you are worrying about running it in windows/mac/solaris they can still use the GUI of the OSs above.The only thing i can think of is by using a custom GTK+ theme in your apps here is a collection that i found http://www.webhostingsearch.com/article ... themes.php

I would avoid changing the theme just for YOUR application just to make it look pretty, unless it is essential. The user may have picked a theme due to a visual impairment such as colour blindness or a lack of vision and has picked a theme to help make the display look OK for them. And themes are a very personal thing.

There are many other ways to make your application look pretty. The first is to experiment with the placement of your widgets and see what looks best (try it with different themes if you can). If you are using Glade to create your user interface that would make experimenting very easy. The next and probably the hardest way is to have custom widgets that follow the users theme. This way you will have full control over what your widget looks like and how it behaves

If you need to change the style of your widgets have a look at GtkStyle (GTK 2.0) or GtkStyleContext (GTK 3.0). This way you can control the various options for a widget, without having to change everything.

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